We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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